Graduate Studies
Letter from the Chair
Prospective Students Information
Graduate Fields of Study
The UIUC History Department offers thirty graduate fields of concentration, with varying geographic, chronological, and thematic emphases. For information on these fields you should consult the links below. It is also possible for students to design independent constructed fields.
- Africa
- African American
- American Intellectual & Culture
- Britain & Empire-Commonwealth since 1688
- China
- Colonial North America & Early US to 1830
- Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
- Comparative Labor/Working Class
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Early Modern Europe I (1450-1650)
- Early Modern Europe II (1600-1815)
- Eastern Europe
- Europe since 1789
- Global Histories
- Science, Technology and Medicine
- Nationalism
- Women and Gender
- Japan
- Late Antiquity
- Latin America
- Medieval Europe
- Middle East
- Race and Ethnicity
- Religion in Pre-Modern Society
- Russia
- United States since 1830
- Urban History